Maritime Photography by Søren Lund Hviid
After two and a half decades of regular traveling to Europe’s ferry hotspots, Scotland was still an almost uncharted territory for me. At least until this summer, where I had the chance to combine an invitation to attend a friend’s wedding party on Arran with a three nights stay in Oban. That offered a central […]
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The majority of cruise calls in Aarhus during summer takes place within 08:00 and 18:00. From a photography perspective this limit the potential numbers of photo sessions with attractive light conditions. However AIDA VITA’s 19:30 departure the other day was an exception. I therefore drove the 50 km to Sletterhage Lighthouse to take advantage of […]
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The newbuilding BERLIN went into operation May this year, four years later than originally planned. Following this autumn, her coming fleet mate, the remaining fifty procent of the much-needed tonnage renewal and expansion on the Gedser-Rostock-route, COPENHAGEN will join in, Scandlines announce. It was miscalculations and use of over-dimensioned steel plates, among other things at […]
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It was heavy clouds and rain showers that welcomed the German passengers on AIDA AURA and AIDA VITA yesterday, when the two sister-cruise ships did a call in Aarhus. Fortunately the weather finally cleared up in the minutes up to the grand simultaneous departure at 19:15. Both ships soon headed out in the Bay of […]
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The draught of bigger ships calling Port of Aarhus force them to pass through the fairway very close to Sletterhage Lighthouse on the southern-most tip of the Djursland peninsula. Therefore the area surrounding the lighthouse offers great, but with the direct southerly orientation, also challenging opportunities for maritime photography. In recent years Sletterhage Lighthouse has […]
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As described in a previous post I used one of the top floors at the Hotel Neptun, located directly at the waterfront of Warnemünde, as a photo platform earlier this summer. Back in March I did the same, but at the newly built “Seafront” extension of Hotel Hirtshals. The choice of March instead of the […]
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The small town Hals at the Kattegat-entrance to the Limfjorden is appointed as new layup-base for the two vintage state icebreakers DANBJØRN and ISBJØRN, both awaiting a buyer. An third slightly younger fleet mate, THORBJØRN, from the now total decommissioned Royal Danish Navy-operated icebreaker fleet, is already sold to a private owner in Svendborg. The […]
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REGAL PRINCESS prepares for departure 26th of May 2015 while MAX MOLS, in-route from Zealand, overtakes the inbound MAGLEBY MÆRSK. Now the bigger KAT EXPRESS 1 departs for Zealand and passes the huge container ship awaiting her approach slot in the bay. Assisted by the tugs AROS and HERMES, the post-panamax-cruiser cast off and takes […]
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Some aerial views from my balcony on the 15th floor of Hotel Neptun situated more than less directly on the beach of wonderful “Seebad” Warnemünde – one of my favourite photo locations. I had of course booked a room overlooking the mouth of Warnow, when I stayed there last weekend. The main reason to go […]
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Here we go! I’ve just moved on from a static web site to a blog, so this is my very first post. We start out with some new photos for my never-ending Danish Coast-to-Coast project: Ships passes Dragør late afternoon, March 2016.
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